Galleries, Exhibitions & Museums in Canada

Are you off to Canada this year? If so, there are a plethora of activities and special events going on across the country in celebration of its 150th birthday. And if like us you enjoy soaking up the local culture and gaining some incredible insights while you travel, what else is there to do but visit some of the best galleries and museums in Canada?

Look out for these galleries, exhibitions and museums in Canada:

Kontinuum, Ottawa’s future Light Rail Transit station

Kontinuum, Ottawa

Going underground for an immersive and mesmerising experience, visitors of Kontinuum can expect a futuristic show of art installations and projections inside one of the soon-to-be LRT stations in Ottawa. Giving the illusion that the walls and floors are moving around you, you get a sense of weightlessness as you enter the underground passages. With so many spectacles to see, your jaw is bound to drop at some point throughout the evening!

Inspiration Village, ByWard Market, Ottawa

Inspiration Village, Ottawa

As if the colourful stands at the ByWard Market weren’t enough of a draw on their own, this year an exciting new project called Inspiration Village will be coming to town. With more right-angles than a Cubist painting, the structure – made of shipping containers – will be showcasing an array of architectural designs for modern, sustainable buildings. So, if you know your buttresses from your bow windows, this is the exhibition for you!

Art Express’d, Winnipeg Art Gallery

Winnipeg cityscape – museums in Canada

Boy, do they like their shipping containers in Canada! In an exciting coast-to-coast adventure, Art Express’d,made from old metal cargo structures, is a travelling exhibition stopping off at 15 different communities along its route. Ending up at the Winnipeg Art Gallery, the art exhibition hopes to illustrate the unique diversity of Canada’s geographical landscape, linguistics and people. On a quest to find three contemporary artists nationwide to travel one of its 3 routes, Art Express’d is about inspiring the public to express their visions of Canada.

Bloor-Yorkville Icefest, Village of Yorkville Park

Yorkville Icefest, credit Pascal Arseneau

Visit Toronto this February and you might be fooled into thinking you’d stepped foot on a Tim Burton film set! Giving Edward Scissorhands a run for his money, the city’s cultural region is celebrating its 12thannual Icefest, a showcase of masterfully-designed ice sculptures. This year’s theme is focused around Canada’s 150th birthday and is sure to be a fun-filled evening for the entire family.

Canada: Day 1, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax

Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax

A travelling exhibition setting up across 10 different venues throughout the year, Canada: Day 1 is making a brief pit stop in Halifax between April-October 2017. Offering a unique perspective on life as an immigrant, the exhibition is made up of a series of interviews with newcomers from across the country, looking into a range of personal first day accounts.

Is Canada on your list of places to visit this year? If so, be sure to tag your photos with #cnjohansens and we’ll share our favourites with our community. You can see all our recommended hotels in Canada here.